haċek

A form of háček — A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling an apostrophe (’) instead.

Meanings

nounhaċek (plural haċeks)

plural haċeks

  1. rareRare spelling of háček.

    It is called a haček or hachek or haċek, pronounced hotchek.

    1991, Verbatim, volumes 17-18, page 13
    3 more examples

    In addition to the letters of the English alphabet, the Czech language has both vowels and consonants with acute accents and haċeks.

    1967, Moshe Y. Sachs [ed.], Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations: Europe (3rd ed., Worldmark Press), page 52

    This leaves 96 possible printable characters, enough for uppercase and lowercase but not an extended set of altered characters (e.g., slash O) or diacritics (e.g., haċek).

    1979, Journal of Library Automation, volume 12, American Library Association, page 380

    Here I will use ō, ū, ī, haċek letters č, š, ǰ, and ġ for the voiced counterpart of q.

    2007, Erik Gren, Orientalia Suecana (Almquist & Wiksell Periodical Co.), volume 56, page 251
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